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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the science team, and incredibly sure of myself. I had no idea I'd be where I ... 't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of what's better (kind of like the Challenge Towers from Mortal Kombat). Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  [annotation note="second to last year of high school education, aka junior year ... of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little"]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what MIT policies would allow[/annotation] ). So of course, I realized I ... researching and actually putting together an aquarium so here's an outline of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  that kind of bond makes me happy. In high school, I worked on a ... have passed since freshman orientation, turning it into this blur of free ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  , of course). We talked about our schools' responses to COVID ... aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

   https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the ... talked about the the power of technology and data science to bring change to the criminal justice system. CATHY O'NEIL, author of Weapons of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  , MIT-MEET, and MISTI-UK. All of these were through MISTI, so they were ... and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o__o. I didn’t ASE out of any GIRs, so I took each and every one   

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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  of each other as well. This is not a local community school, there are ... keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  % of premed undergrads get into med school :-). I am very happy to say ... enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it. Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  decide to take a Leave of Absence for this next school year (more on that ... one of the dozens of schools in the area sending their students away ... Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... decision to take a break. We took the time to decompress from the rush of MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011